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This pic of myself, my wife Sharon, and my son Jake was taken during the fall 2016 Hot Springs run to Superlift ORV Park on one of the loop trails. The Jeep aka the Blue Mule is a 2010 JK with a few mods on 37″ tires and some LED lights. Thanks to all that voted for my pic. It’s always a good time with family and friends on the trails!

The Jeep is a ’99 TJ with an LS1, auto, Atlas, 60’s F&R, 14″ coilovers, and 39″ Krawlers. This picture was taken by Cal of CK Customs at the first main obstacle on lower Tackett Creek trail during a 2017 New Year’s run to Burris Valley Ranch in Pittsburg, Oklahoma. This park was by far the most challenging and fun I’ve been to and set the hook deep for “Wheel’n Hard, Brah!”. Can’t wait to get back!!

Congratulations to James “NVRDUN” Foster for February 2017 JOTM Winner!

Although it’s not a “wheeling” picture it has a special meaning for our family. Our son Dustin got married last October to a beautiful young lady named Meg. Lisa and I became instant grandparents to three wonderful kids. The youngest is 3 years old. His name is Chase. The picture was taken on December 24, 2016, which was our first Christmas with the grandkids. So it just seemed right that Chase would get a Jeep for Christmas. We added some custom RUBICON stickers to the hood, some LSJC stickers in front of the doors and Lisa had a set of custom plates made for it with Chase?s name. The picture came about because Meg and Dustin did not have room in their car to get it home. So I loaded it up in the JK. Chase came out and asked where his Jeep was and I told him it was in the JK. He got so excited that he jumped up and down and wanted to see. So I opened the back again for him to see and that?s when the picture was shot. He thought it was really cool that his JK was in the back of Grandpa?s JK.

While out for a day of wheeling at Bridgeport off road Park with Sharon and Ben (dog), we had wheeled most trails that we were interested in doing. In route to our last trail of the day “Meno’s” we encountered an unexpected obstacle. Driving down a steep muddy access road with off camber ledges our driver front tire dropped off a ledge before our passenger tire came off the ledge and it was on, resulting in the roll over that brings us to this picture. Never would I have expected that out come on a trail road that I’ve been on many times before.

Upon finding ourselves inverted I asked Sharon if she was hurt, which she answered no we found ourselves laughing. You see, Sharon had vowed to never drive the Jeep off road until it had been flopped, still says she won’t drive! With the help of Bart’s winch at the bottom, and a snatch block we rolled the jeep back on its wheels checked everything out then cranked it up and drove it back to the parking lot via the rocky Menos trail then continued our drive home without any troubles.

Our Jeep is getting a make over hood, windshield frame, rear quarter, and roll bar have been changed as well as some other problems being addressed. Our Insurer GEICO covered all damages and we will be back on the trails this spring hopefully .
Jim & Sharon AKA “Jeep Jockey”

Election run 2016, Barnwell Mountain Recreation; the first trail of the day was Binder Boulevard led by our fearless leader Joe (Bushwacker) and his lovely and talented navigator Sonia (Bushwackersgirl). The picture was taken by Sonia and really captures the definitions of the of the terrain that lets the picture speak for itself. It was a great weekend that my girlfriend Susan (Sparkles) and I really enjoyed spending with great friends.

This is another picture that was taken by “Copper Head”, Sonia. It was taken at the 2016 LSJC Election Run. I cannot remember the name of the trail, but it was muddy in the middle so I was trying to keep the Jeep to the passenger side. In doing so, the Jeep kept walking the wall. Once all my passengers got out, 3 of them, they told me to stop so they could get a picture.